North American Grouse Partnership with Ted Koch | Episode 285

Hunt Talk Radio

Randy Newberg

Sports, Wilderness, Education, How To

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2026

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy interviews Ted Koch, Executive Director of the North American Grouse Partnership, about the rapid decline of prairie grouse, particularly the Lesser Prairie Chicken, due to large-scale grassland loss. They discuss how most remaining habitat is on private land, where economic pressures often discourage conservation even among landowners who value it. Rather than relying only on regulation through the Endangered Species Act, they advocate for market-based incentive alignment that pay ranchers for ecosystem services like habitat, water, and soil health. Long-term conservation success depends on keeping ranching viable while working collaboratively with private landowners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.3	As I've been walking, I saw a sign there on the silence and said no trespassing, but on the other side it didn't say nothing.
1:06.0	Well, that side was made for you and me.
1:14.5	Hey, folks, Randy Newberg here with another episode of Louisville's Hunt Talk Radio.
1:19.6	I hope you're all having a great day today on this wonderful late March afternoon, morning.
1:27.1	And close to, yeah, I guess it's morning.
1:32.0	I'm lucky to have a guest who's in town for a hockey tournament of all things, right?
1:37.5	A guy who is interested in continuing his hockey career at our age is, well, he's going to make an interesting
1:47.7	guest if he wants to continue to do that. But what occupies his daily life is he's the executive
1:55.3	director of the North American Grouse Partnership. And that name is, as you might imply, right?
2:01.9	It's the grouse species across North America.
2:05.9	I think he, before we turned down the mic, I think Ted told me there were nine species of grouse
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